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‘It’s kind of sad.’ As Primm’s last casino shuts down, employees struggling for housing, jobs

Monday, May 25, 2026 2:27 PM
Image aggregated from The Nevada Independent.
  • Howard Stutz, The Nevada Independent

Learning that her job at the Primm Valley Casino Resort will be eliminated on July 4 was distressing for Megan Miller.

It got even worse after she discovered she and hundreds of other tenants would have to move out of the apartment she leases from the casino company two days after the resort near the California-Nevada border closes.

“It’s unsettling,” said Miller, who lives in the apartment complex in the shadow of the shuttered Desperado roller coaster, which hasn’t operated since the pandemic. With three children younger than 15 and her boyfriend also soon to be out of work after nearly two decades in Primm, unrooting isn’t easy.